Verisign Being ...

So in your browser go to a random .net domain. Make sure it's something really unintelligable that won't exist, like:

And somehow, magically you end up here. Are they being evil or helpful ...

UPDATE: There have been assorted comments about the security of Verisign's new feature. There has also been a rather large backlash against them (though it's not the first time). Various sources report that the PaulVixie will be providing a patch to allow admins to configure IscBind to detect and ignore the change.

UPDATE 2: IscBind version 9.2.3rc2 has the fix for the Verisign "feature", and there is also a patch for Bind 8.


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AdamShand/2003-09-15 (last edited 2003-09-17 23:15:41 by AdamShand)